Poultry-perch.



Patlented Iuly 15,1902.

-POULTBY PERGIL (Appx'imaon me@ .rune 24. 1901.

(No Model.)

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UNITED STAT-Es 'PATENT Orrrcn.

ORRIAN L. HARROD, F lBELLE CENTER, OHIO, ASSIGNORTO MEDIOATED POULTRY PERCH COMPANY, OF BELLE CENTER, OHIO.

POULTRY-PERCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 704,953, dated July 15, 1902. Application filedy June 24, 1901. Serial No. 65,863. (No model.)

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This invention relates to perches for fowls and other perehing 'birds or animals; and it consists in forming the perch with a longitudinal cavity and of separable parts and with perforations in one or both parts, so that vermin-destroying ingredients or compounds or medicaments may be placed therein in aposition to subject the animal or the vermin upon them to their influence while the fowls are in position upon the perch; and the invention consistsin the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter shown and described, and specifically pointed ont in the claims.

In the drawings illustrative of the invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view ofa pair of porches with a portion of the supportingframework embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a cross-section, enlarged, of one of. the per-ches on the line o ct of Fig. 1.

This invention consists in separable hollow perches for the houses, coops, or cages of fowl and other perching birds or animals to provide for treating such animals to compounds or ingredients, preferably volatile, that will Vhave the effect of destroying vermin and other parasites and also to enable volatile medicaments to be transmitted to the birds while on their porches.

The invention consists particularly in forming the perch in two partsl and 2, one or both of which parts are hollow, as shown in Fig. 2, and the parts preferably united by hinges 3 and with suitable fastenings Il.

The upper section 1 will be provided at snitable intervals with perforations 5, and simii lar perforations may also' be formed in the lower section 2, if required.

The insect-destroying' compound Y will be placed in the hollow perch and allowed to escape through perforations 5,' and thus destroy the vermin or other injurious parasites. Medical compounds may also be inserted into thehollow perch and beii'ree to escape and come in contact with the fowl upon the porches and be equally as eiective.

The porches may be of any size or'shape' and may be arranged with the lower sections attached permanentlyT to the supports or removable, as may be preferred. They may be of any suitable material and adapted to any form or size of poultry house, coop, or cage vided with perforations communicating with the interior of the perch.

2. A poultry-perch consisting of a hollow closed-ended structure composed of two parts hinged together and to contain a suitable insecticide in bulk, one of the parts being provided with perforations communicating with the interior of the perch, and fastening means for holding the parts assembled.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

l ORRIAN L. HARROD.

Witnesses: -1

JOSEPH O. Barcos, JOHN O. ANGELL. 

